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Woman is not illegal immigrant

01 November 1993

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Naheed Ejaz, a Pakistan-born British woman with four children born in Britain, has been vindicated in her claim against the Home Office, who attempted to remove her and the children as illegal immigrants. Naheed was granted naturalisation on the basis of her marriage to a British husband. Some years later, it transpired that he was not British but had falsely obtained a British passport. The Home Office then declared that Naheed, who by this time had left her husband because of his violence, was not British either despite her naturalisation certificate, and neither were the children. They were all illegal immigrants. The Court of Appeal said on 3 December that the Home Office attempt to remove her as illegal was unlawful.

R v Secretary of State ex parte Ejaz 3.12.93.

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